Siberian jay
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The Siberian jay is a small jay with a widespread distribution within the coniferous forests in North Eurasia. It has grey-brown plumage with a darker brown crown and a paler throat. It is rusty-red i
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In a spruce forest near Evenstad, Norway
Eggs in the Museum Wiesbaden
Preparatory drawing of a Siberian jay by Magnus Körner for Illuminerade figurer till Skandinaviens fauna by Sven Nilsson (1840)
Corvidae
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Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. In colloquial terms, the crow family is
Siberian jay
…much further than their dominant siblings, which more often move straight into a breeding position in a new territory. Unusually for a gregarious corvid species, members in a group of Siberian jays do not help the parents raise younger siblings in future cohorts (i.e., there is no cooperative breeding…
Carrion crow head
Skeleton of (Corvus brachyrhynchos) at the Museum of Osteology
Corvids are highly opportunistic foragers. Here, a forest raven feeds on a Tasmanian nativehen hit by a car.
A Canada jay pair feeding their chicks.